A Delhi Court on Monday ordered the framing of sedition among other charges against JNU scholar and activist Sharjeel Imam in a 2019 case, in which he allegedly delivered an inflammatory speech inciting violence at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh and Jamia area in the national capital during the CAA-NRC protests in 2019.
Updated Jan 24, 2021 · 05:41 pm File photo of activist Umar Khalid. | Sonu Mehta/HT
A Delhi court on Friday criticised the media for publishing alleged confessional statements of activist Umar Khalid in a case related to the violence in the national Capital in February 2020, without clarifying that his statements were not admissible as evidence,
Live Law reported.
The court was hearing a plea filed by Khalid, stating that his right to free and fair trial was getting affected as sections of the media quoted selectively from his disclosure statement and falsely claimed them to be part of his confessional statement.
In an order passed on Friday, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar said that a reporter should have the basic knowledge that a confessional statement made to a police official is not admissible as an evidence and that a reader should be informed about that, according to
Updated Jan 07, 2021 | 16:35 IST
The Delhi Police, in a supplementary charge sheet, has said that the use of deadly weapons during the Delhi riots in February 2020 falls under the definition of a terrorist activity . File picture | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: A startling revelation has been made by former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain in a disclosure statement in the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police against former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid in the 2020 Delhi riots case. In the statement, Hussain has quoted Khalid as saying: “No matter how many houses need to be set on fire or Hindus killed, the government must be shaken at any cost.”
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